Monday, November 14, 2016

Amanda's 30th birthday - Halloween 2016


Surprise, surprise!! I'm playing catch-up again!  Life is so dang busy, the months just fly by!!!

SO... I had a killer 30th birthday weekend!!  It started off on Thursday, when I went to the LuLaRoe Inspire Tour in SLC with my friends Jenni and Crissa who are both on my team.  It was definitely inspiring and cool to hear from Deanne who is the head honcho and many company leaders!!  It was a fun girl's day!




And then on Friday, Tom took the day off and we headed out on our little weekend getaway!!
Our first stop was to visit the Julians and meet sweet little Rylie Kay!  We are so happy for the Julians and their new little baby!!!


Then we headed the rest of the way up to Layton and got settled into our hotel that we were staying in for the night!  Then I chose Chili's for my birthday dinner!

Then it was back to the hotel for the girl's highlight of the trip..... the HOTEL POOL!!




They were so cute waddling through the halls proudly wrapped in their towels!
At 6:30 am I notice Tom is not in bed with me.... so I assume he was in the bathroom... but no, then I silently check the other bed, then the chair, then I'm feeling around for him on the floor.... but no!!! I kind of freak out then check my phone.  He texted me a sweet happy birthday text and that he'd be right back!  What the!?
So about 7 he comes back and the girls were still asleep and he sneaks in the bathroom and is in there for a while... the girls wake up and I tell them to go get Dad in the bathroom and he comes out with tons of balloons he was in the bathroom blowing up!!! SOOO sweet!  He said his plan was to fill the room before any one woke up haha.  He also picked me up a card and some candy!
Then we started my requested birthday activity of spending the day at Lagoon!!
It was soooo much fun!  Jade definitely got her money's worth!!!....the rest of us, not so much haha.  But we still all had a blast doing all the rides we could with little kids.














We had so much fun but were exhausted by 3:00 p.m.!  So we headed on home and made it back in time for our Ward's Fall Festival!
Tom destroyed everyone at stick pull!
Lainey was so interested in the face painting!  She just stood and watched several kid's get theirs done before she got hers done.  She absolutely loved it!
These pictures of Lainey and Tom just melt my heart!!!!

On Sunday, Tom cooked all day and made me a cake!  It was seriously a perfect birthday!  I guess 30 is not so bad!

My birthday weekend even continued on through Monday!! Hey, I'm not complaining!! Michelle and Larry took us out to eat at our favorite restaurant Carabbas!!  It was such a fun night!

Later that week we went to one of my favorite Fall festivities!! The pumpkin patch!  We went with the Fowlers and Bunkers.  It was so fun as always!


Lainey has been obsessed with pumpkins all season long!! Any store that has them out front, we HAVE to go see them!  And she always greets the ones on our porch!

Poor Lainey.... this donkey mistook her fingers for some grass and she got chomped pretty good!  Even now, she'll randomly say, "Dat Donkey bit my finger!  It was a accident!"

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY FAMILY AND THIS TIME OF YEAR!!

Random park day with Jess and Trey...
Family date out to Joe Banditos and the Provo Rec Center....
Jade got her darling little school picture back!!! Isn't she the cutest?! And not surprising, she is the only one in her class who posed this way!  Everyone else had their hands down on the desk haha!  Oh Jade... LOVE YOU!

Halloween was a fun one this year!!! Jade was "Owlette" from the show PJ Masks and Lainey was Minnie Mouse!!  They both were loving every second of being in their costumes!!
I was a pregnant skeleton and Tom was........... hahaha a tiger.
We had a super fun Halloween party at the Bunkers with the whole gang on Saturday night!!


OWLETTE!!!

And on Monday, Jade loved dressing up for preschool and we, of course, went trick or treating!
Trick or treating was SOOO much fun!  Being a parent really rocks.  They didn't want to stop!  Holidays are the best with kids!!!!
Here they are with all their loot!!!
My little not so helpful LuLaRoe helper!!
 
OH MY HECK!!!! WE ARE HAVING A BOY!!!  We found out on Nov. 1st and couldn't be more excited!!!!! We feel so grateful to be blessed with another baby and soooo excited that it's a boy!!

The weather this Fall has been AMAZING!! Today was 70 degrees!


Little Boss Lady!
Round 2 at the Pumpkin Patch!  Brittany and I went during the day with the kids!


Oh Marley... such a patient boy.
LONG LIVE FALL!!!